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funnyman (plural funnymen)
- (informal) comedian
- To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.
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1988 December 16, Albert Williams, “Club Dates: Bruce Vilanch returns from Hollywood”, in Chicago Reader:- From 1970 to 1974 he was one of the most familiar funnymen in Chicago: by day a heavily promoted personality journalist, by night a "sit-down comic" with a devoted following.
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